Updated again: The American Jewish community has clearly confused diplomacy with actual sentiment. We can’t pick and choose which words we want to believe– we have to look at the larger pattern of words and the cold-hard facts of actions taken. Netanyahu has a documented history of friction with the Obama Administration, so it is irrelevant that Netanyahu congratulated Obama on re-election and said that “the alliance with the United States is firm.” Netanyahu HAD TO say that. If he didn’t, he would have failed as Israel’s leader– he could not shun the United States, which is Israel’s still-best but quickly-diminishing ally. These words don’t indicate actual sentiment, and American Jews need to look at the larger picture and understand how the world works. Netanyahu’s post-election words indicate that he is trying to act in a strategic manner, within an Israeli government which has been betrayed and abandoned by American Jews who sadly place their liberal ideology above Judaism.